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pain struggle adversity
I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it! Dean Karnazes
pain real book
Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all the little details, so that you feel as though you are enmeshed in Coley's brain: thinking her thoughts, feeling her confusion, anger, and, in the end, pain. I just don't think it's possible to read this book and not identify with Coley in some way. Amber Benson
pain sick religion
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action. Amartya Sen
pain mean wings
Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you worry about disaster all of the time, that's what you are going to get," Fertility says. Chuck Palahniuk
pain war nice
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright. Chuck Palahniuk
pain back-again again-and-again
We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again. Christopher Moore
pain artist people
What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you. Angelina Jolie
pain men balance
Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain? Angelina Jolie
pain men self
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating. Andrew Cohen
silence world silent
Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness Rumi
silence sacredness known
All is known in the sacredness of silence. Rumi
silence listening faces
He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself. J. K. Rowling
silence speech
More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.] George Herbert
silence world flow
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows. Jose Marti
silence amir shutting-down
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir Khaled Hosseini
silence speech conversation
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. Henry David Thoreau
silence safe silent
Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you. John Boyle O'Reilly
silence speech quiet
Silence is safer than speech. Epictetus
doubt serious ifs
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth. Paul Tillich
doubt significant position
Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society. Frank Luntz
doubt shadow
Doubt is faith's shadow. Jo Nesbo
doubt literature praying
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
doubt fields pioneers
Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
doubt resurrection interpretation
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. Hans Urs von Balthasar
doubt desperate
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. Gustave Flaubert
doubt madness illness
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. Gustave Flaubert
doubt mania
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. Gustave Flaubert